Fireworks-torch



(No Model.)

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FIREWORKS TORCH. No. 494,440. Patented Mar. 28, 1893.

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THOMAS M. PIERCE, OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FIREWORKS-TORCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,440, dated March28, 1893.

Application filed December 22,1892. Serial No. 456,094. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS M. PIERCE, of Concord, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fireworks-Torches or Signal-Fusees, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its object the manufacture of fireworks torchesor signal fusees, whereby a comparatively thin casing or tube of paperor other suitable sheet material for the fireworks composition can beused, so it can burn freely, and yet have the requisite strength of thetorch for use. and the invention consists of a fireworks torch composedof a casing or tube, fireworks composition therein, and a wire, rod orstem longitudinally within the composition preferably central, allsubstantially as hereinafter fully described reference being had to theaccompanying sheet of drawings in which: Q

Figure 1, is a vertical central longitudinal section of a fireworkstorch constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2, is a crosssection on line 22 Fig. 1.

In the drawings A represents a fireworks torch of which E is the casingor tube of paper, or other suitable sheet material, C the fireworkscomposition, D the priming, E the fuse, F a cap secured to and closingthe up perend of the casing, G a plug or stopper in the lower end of thecasing and H a steel point by which the fusee is supported in use, allsubstantially as usual in the construction of fireworks torches andsignal fusees and needing no more particular description herein.

J is a rod, or wire or stem, which is longitudinally centrally in thecomposition preferably extending substantially its length as shown.

In securing the wire, rod or stem in the torch or fusee it can be firstplaced centrally longitudinally in the casing, resting on the plug, orso held in any suitable manner, and then the composition placed in thecasing about and around the wire and firmly packed therein.

To produce the best practical results in the use of the fireworks torchor signal fusee, the casing should burn freely and quickly with thecomposition, but when made of paper thin will not have sufficientstrength and will be easily broken in transportation and use, and tomake the casing of paper or other material thick enough to give therequisite strength, the thickness is liable to interfere with theperfect burning of the torch, but with the application of the centralwire, or rod, or stem embedded in the fireworks composition, thecomposition being firmly pressed in the easing around and about thewire, rod or stem, the requisite strength of the torch is securedenabling the casing to be made of quite thin paperor other material, forthe perfect burning of the torch.

The wire or rod or stem can be made of any suitable metal, or it can bemade of wood or paper, and can be made solid as shown or hollow, in tubeform, and of any suitable form, round, square or otherwise in crosssection, but being made of metal it can be made somewhat smallerindiameter than if made of wood or paper so thatit might be preferable tomake it of metal. It can be disposed in the composition longil udiuallyat one side in lieu of centrally therein, although it is preferable tohave it as described, and shown; also the wire, rod or stem need onlyextend part way, substantially half way, the lower half, as theprincipal part of the torch requiring the strength is at the lower halfof the torch.

The fireworks composition being firmly packed within the casing andaround and about the central wire, stem or rod, makes a very compact,solid and strong torch, and of such strength that the casing can be madeof quite thin paper enabling it to burn freely and thus make a perfectburning torch. The central wire or rod or stem embedded in thecomposition, secures the strength desired for the torch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A fireworks torch orsignalfusee, consisting of a tube or casing, fireworks compositiontherein, and a longitudinal wire, rod or stem embedded in thecomposition.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

, THOMAS M. PIERCE.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN,

enough to accomplish this result, the torch LEONA O. ARNO.

